The Blessed ManPsalm 1

The Blessed Man

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The Psalmist here uses three triplets which build in intensity with each

progression demonstrating a profound truth - a minor deviation from God’s

direction can only lead one to completely rejecting the instruction of God and

ultimately to destroy any hope that one might have for peace in their life.

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Walk - describes the character and behavior of one’s life

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Counsel - “has two basic, though closely related, meanings: “counsel, advice” and “plan, purpose” (Mounce)

Wicked - “denotes the category of people who have done wrong, are still living in sin, and are intent on continuing with wrongdoing” (Vine’s)

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Stand - to stand or prop but also to persevere, to remain “be or become servant of”

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Path - a road (as trodden); a course of life or mode of action

Sinners - “exposed to condemnation”

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Sit - “to live, to inhabit, to dwell” (Mounce)

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Seat - “ seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers” (Brown, Driver, Briggs)

Scoffers - “scorn” those who mock religion/God

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Delight - literally desire or will but more than just a disposition of the mind

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The law of the Lord - direction, instruction, law (BDB)

Meditates day and night - reflecting the sighing and low sounds one may make while musing, at least as the ancients practiced it.

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Planted - “transplanted” (BDB), “firmly planted so that no winds that wage around it may move it from its place” (JFB)

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Brings forth fruit in his season - the fruit which one expects from it, it yields... and that at its appointed, proper time (Keil and Delitzsch)

Its leaf does not whither - due to intentional planting and proper sustenance

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4 The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind

drives away.Psalm 1:4 (NASB95)

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24 The Lord bless you, and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face

shine on you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His

countenance on you, And give you peace.’Numbers 6:24–26 (NASB95)

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